'Biggest Loser' Patrick Q&A: 'I felt called to sacrifice myself'

But, once again, it was Bob Harper's Black Team who came out on top, while Anna Kournikova's Blue Team (who have already lost two players) also managed to pull the numbers, meaning it was Dolvett Quince's Red Team who had to send somebody home.

Why did you plead with your teammates to put your name down?"I didn't feel that way right after the weigh-in. I remember we were standing there right before we did deliberation and I just started sobbing, I couldn't stop. I turned away from my team because I didn't know why I was crying and started praying and I really felt called in that moment to lay my life down for my team.

"I was just like, 'Lord, please no, I'm just starting to feel confident'. I just lost 11lbs! That was tied for the best on my team, not percentage-wise, but it was amazing. So I was starting to have this newfound confidence and I didn't want to go but I felt called to do it and I wanted to be obedient to that."

What has your relationship with your teammates meant to you?"Like I said on TV, I think it's really hard for anyone - my wife, my friends, family, America - to truly understand how close you become to these people. You are all coming here to the ranch from some of the most broken places in your life... And you get to change your life. You get to sweat on this gym together, hug each other while you are bawling, pray with one another, believe with one another. It's amazing."

Why do you think the Black Team has been beating the Red Team? Does the trainer make a difference?"Man, I think that was the question we kept asking ourselves the entire time - why does this middle-aged team keep beating us? It was so frustrating! I think at first there was [the feeling] of, it has to be Bob, it has to be Bob, but I don't know exactly why, because looking back at Dolvett and thinking about the experiences and talking to personal trainers back here, Dolvett is amazing. He did everything he was supposed to do and then some.

"I don't know. They were bigger, all of their guys and girls were bigger than us except for Joe, so they had bigger numbers to pull, but still percentage-wise we should have been pulling the same numbers. I have no idea because I can promise you we were working just as hard as them. I think everyone thought the young blood would have been able to pull some decent numbers!"

Do you think there is a chance someone on your Red Team can win?"Man, I really don't think you can count out anyone on our team. Every person on that team is amazing. Vinny, that guy is not a quitter, Ramon hates losing, and those girls are tough, from week one those girls were tough. I know it's not the answer you want to hear - it's very PC - but I think honestly anyone on that Red Team has a shot."

What was the best part of NFL week for you?"I'm a huge Green Bay Packers fan, a fanatic, so getting to meet Clay Matthews was amazing! I think it's between that and getting to meet and workout with Tim Tebow. He was by far the most genuine, down-to-Earth person I have probably ever met.

"He came in and we got to do the Last Chance Workout with him and you could tell the whole time he wanted you to succeed. You could see it in his eyes and that was really encouraging. He really encouraged us to work harder during our workouts and stayed afterwards for 45 minutes to talk with us about life at the ranch. It was very personal and awesome."

How was it working with Dolvett?"I think anyone who meets Dolvett is encouraged to be a little bit of a better person. He does a good job of inspiring people and reading people's strengths and weaknesses and encouraging them to be better in their strengths and pushing them in their weaknesses. And he doesn't give up with you, as you saw with me."

Was the experience of being at the ranch as you expected it would be?"I don't remember exactly what was going through my mind [when I arrived] but I remember thinking it wasn't what I expected. We would do all our interviews after our workouts or whatever we did there, and I remember saying in every interview for the first two weeks, 'America you don't understand how difficult it is!'

"I would be one of the people who sat on the couch and said, 'Are you kidding me? Come on, fatty, get moving! I could do that so easy!' You sit there and critique them but there is so much footage they film and you only see a minuscule amount of the intense workouts we do. For me, it was a shocker at how truly difficult, not only physically but emotionally how difficult it was."

Can you talk about your relationship with your wife before and after the ranch?"Before the show my wife was trying her best to get us to eat right, exercise and live healthier lifestyles, but I just didn't buy into it. I didn't care and that really hurt her in the sense that, 'wow, my husband doesn't care about what is important to me' and it hurt her because she began to take on some of the naive lifestyle choices I did.

"Since being back it has been amazing. Truly for the first time in our marriage we feel like a team in everything we do. We work out together, we make meal plans together for the week, we go grocery shopping. We now dream together too, we're talking about how we want to run certain races together and do certain events together. It's really cool to feel like a team in all that you do with your wife for the first time in your marriage."

Why do you think you didn't care before?"My physical appearance was never important to me. I never cared. and I was really selfish. That's what it comes down to - selfishness. When the most important person in your life tells you something is important to them and it doesn't require that much of a sacrifice to you and it's a big deal to them and you choose to not do that with the fitness stuff, I think it's just selfishness. I was able to reverse that on the show."

What sort of regime are you following at home now?"I'm not giving an ounce of room for error. I straight up with my wife sat down and created a 40-hour a week schedule for what my week looks like. I'm working out three and a half to four hours a day, five days a week, obviously doing lots of running training for the marathon. When it comes to nutrition, sticking to the caloric intake the show and Dr Huizenga set for me. I think for me being successful at home is about not making up excuses."